The Pomegranate Martini – Thirsty Thursday
Ok, so I’m gonna try something new here but I’m gonna need some crowd participation. Since everyone has coined Thursday as “Thirsty Thursday”, I figured why not feature a drink of the day. Drink features are not limited to alcoholic beverages. Feel free to submit recipes for smoothies, juices, and other drinkable beverages. Today, I’m feature one of my favorite cocktails…a pomegranate martini. It’s sort of my “go to” drink when I’m out. Have a recipe? Hit me up at smorris@graeenterprises.com and we’ll feature it. Recipes can be submitted anonymously if you choose. Looking forward to adding more tasty recipes to my stash!
The Pomegranate Martini via PomegranateMartini.net
Ingredients
Pomegranate juice (freshly squeezed or POM) – 1 ½oz
Vodka (citrus vodka preferable) or Gin – 2oz
Cointreau Liquor – 1oz
A Cup of chopped Ice
Lemon juice – ½ tbsp.
Lemon slice – 2 (for garnishing)
Pomegranate fruit – few for garnishing
Sugar – for garnishing
Instructions
1. Rub the rim of the serving glasses with lemon juice.
2. Spread the sugar on a plate and place the rim of the serving glass on this plate until the rim is covered with sugar.
3. Fill crushed ice up to quarter of the cocktail shaker.
4. Empty all the liquids into the shaker.
5. Blend all the liquids by shaking for half a minute.
6. Filter the mixed cocktail and serve it in the cocktail glasses that are chilled.
7. Squeeze few drops of lemon juice (optional).
8. Place the sliced lemon piece on the rim of the cocktail glass as garnishing.
